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 * Copyright 2019, OpenTelemetry Authors
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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import { Span } from './span';
import { Attributes } from './attributes';
import { SpanKind } from './span_kind';
import { SpanContext } from './span_context';
import { Link } from './link';
/**
 * Options needed for span creation
 */
export interface SpanOptions {
    /**
     * The SpanKind of a span
     * @default {@link SpanKind.INTERNAL}
     */
    kind?: SpanKind;
    /** A spans attributes */
    attributes?: Attributes;
    /**
     * Indicates that if this Span is active and recording information like
     * events with the `AddEvent` operation and attributes using `setAttributes`.
     */
    isRecording?: boolean;
    /** A spans links */
    links?: Link[];
    /**
     * A parent `SpanContext` (or `Span`, for convenience) that the newly-started
     * span will be the child of.
     */
    parent?: Span | SpanContext | null;
    /** A manually specified start time for the created `Span` object. */
    startTime?: number;
}